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After the rappelling was completed, the helicopter landed on a flat area not far away.
Li Enshu jogged over, bowed to Su Xiaoqiang first, and then said, "Brother and sister-in-law, happy birthday! This is a gift for you!"
She gave Su Xiaoqiang a bottle of limited edition Chanel perfume.
"Thank you." Su Xiaoqiang smiled as she accepted the gift, then gently sniffed the perfume packaging, noticing a very delicate and elegant fragrance.
"Hello, my name is Susie." Susie was wearing a black tight-fitting T-shirt and jeans, showing off her tall and fit figure.
She smiled gently and greeted Su Xiaoqiang: "Happy birthday, this is just a small token of my appreciation."
"My name is Su Xiaoqiang. Thank you, Su Qian." This was Su Xiaoqiang's first time meeting Su Qian. She thought to herself that Su Qian had a great figure and a gentle appearance that made her feel very comfortable.
Chapter 274 The Nibelungen Project
The gift Susie gave to Su Xiaoqiang was a Doraemon clay sculpture, about the size of a fist, which she made herself.
Su Xiaoqiang found it amusing and thanked him again.
"Wow, this sea of flowers is so beautiful!" Li Enshu looked at the sunflowers around her with delight and took Su Xiaoqiang's wrist. "Sister-in-law, can you take me for a walk?"
Su Xiaoqiang understood that Su Qian seemed to have something to talk to Gu Ran about, so she smiled and agreed, and went for a walk in the sunflower field with Li Enshu.
The sightseeing bus in the resort has an open design. Gu Ran pulled the handbrake and sat back in the bus. Seeing this, Su Xi also got on the bus.
Gu Ran asked irritably, "Senior sister, sending a helicopter to find me, does that mean the Black King has awakened and is going to attack Kassel College?"
He remembered that nothing should have happened during this time. He and Su Xiaoqiang had only been traveling for six days, and Chu Zihang was still unconscious.
Susie said, "You're always taking your girlfriend out for leisure, even though the school's summer semester has already started."
"But I don't need tutoring."
"What about the Lionheart Society?" Susie asked, adopting an older sisterly tone. "You're the next president of the Lionheart Society."
"The Lionheart Society doesn't need my management..." Gu Ran indicated that he was a hands-off manager. When he was brought into the Lionheart Society, it was agreed that he didn't need to manage it.
"In two weeks, Freedom Day will begin again every year." Susie finally got to the point. "Zihang is injured and may not be able to participate this year, so you'll have to take the lead."
But Gu Ran wasn't interested: "Even if Freedom loses for a day, it's not a big deal. There are no advantages, and no disadvantages either."
Previously, when Caesar and Chu Zihang fought, they used the Norton Hall as a wager, but after Lu Mingfei won the Norton Hall, the two leaders were too embarrassed to take it back as a wager.
Susie said, "It's an honor. As the oldest club in the school, we lost to the student council on Liberty Day for several years in a row. The members of the Lionheart Club felt a little embarrassed."
Susie was originally soaking in a hot spring with Nono in Sichuan, China, but she returned to school specifically for this reason.
Gu Ran pondered in his heart that he could participate in the day of freedom, collect blood samples from some A-level students, and unlock the Mangekyou Sharingan.
I wonder what kind of eye technique will be awakened after unlocking the Mangekyou Sharingan.
There were also a few senior students in the A-level group on campus. Gu Ran did not collect their blood samples. They were all from the student union. Because they did not have much interaction and rarely met, he could not find an opportunity to do so.
"There are still about two weeks until Freedom Day, and I will go back to participate then," Gu Ran promised Su Xi.
"Can't you go back to the academy sooner?" Susie asked.
"what happened?"
Susie thought for a moment and said, "The atmosphere at school... has been a bit off lately. Professor Schneider told me that Lionheart is missing a leader right now, and it would be best if you went back."
After a moment's thought, Gu Ran realized that the problem must have come from Principal Angers.
Before attending the auction in Chicago, Angers met with the board members of the College of Kassel in Italy, where he also had a dispute with Frost Gattuso of the Gattuso family.
The dispute concerns the selection of personnel for the Nibelungen Project.
The Nibelungen Project aims to create the strongest hybrid race.
This experiment was personally designed by the alchemy master, Flamel.
The serum purified by Constantine awakens the dragon blood within the hybrids, helping them maintain self-awareness while breaking through critical blood limits, preventing them from becoming bloodthirsty madmen or Deadpools.
Theoretically, this technology could create super hybrids similar to 'The Emperor,' like serum mutants such as Captain America.
However, in practice, because the amount of dragon serum is extremely rare and only the vice principal can implant the alchemical matrix, there is currently only one spot available for this program.
Angers' recommendation spot would naturally go to Lu Mingfei or Chu Zihang, while the Gattuso family's recommendation spot would, of course, go to Caesar.
The two sides were deadlocked, and Frost accused the principal of Angers of having too much power. In order to get Angers to compromise, he planned to plot a power grab to undermine Angers' authority.
The intelligence that Gu Ran and Chu Zihang retrieved earlier was obtained at the request of the Board of Directors, or more precisely, at the request of the Gattuso family.
That intelligence report documented the supernatural phenomena that have occurred in China in recent years, many of which were caused by hybrids and dragons.
The report also records the accident that happened to Chu Zihang on the overpass a few years ago.
In that accident, he mistakenly entered Odin's Nibelungen.
The Gattuso family is probably using Chu Zihang's incident to undermine Angers' prestige.
Professor Schneider probably sensed this, which is why he sent Gu Ran back.
Because the Lionheart Society, the principal's Lionheart Society, is a sharp dagger of the College of Kassel, representing the witness to Angers' dragon-slaying over the years.
What the Lionheart Society has passed down is Angers' spirit of facing the Dragon King head-on and his indomitable will.
Therefore, Schneider needed to protect the reputation of the Lionheart at this time.
Another point is that the Nibelungen Project is also responsible for screening schools based on problematic lineages.
Susie, Gu Ran, and Lancelot, all of whom possess A-grade bloodlines, are on the selection list.
However, Gu Ran, Su Xi, and Lu Mingfei all come from China, and their resumes before they awakened were all clean.
Lu Mingfei's resume was so poor that the professors investigating him even thought he was the principal's illegitimate son.
Moreover, the bloodlines of the Chinese people have always been very stable, so they are not the main focus of observation.
The main targets should be Chu Zihang and Nuonuo. One of them accidentally entered Nibelungen and eventually came out alive from the land of the dead, while the other clearly resonates with the dragon runes but has no words of power.
Both are clearly problematic.
The clues to these problems were all recorded in the SS-level document report that Gu Ran and Chu Zihang collected.
However, this document was intercepted by Professor Schneider and Professor Manstein, who were respectively Chu Zihang and Nuonuo's mentors. In order to protect his students, Professor Schneider destroyed some incriminating evidence in the presence of Professor Guderian.
In short, schools are going through a turbulent period right now, and whether Gu Ran likes it or not, she will inevitably be caught up in this vortex.
Gu Ran was lost in thought for a long time when Su Xi waved her hand in front of his eyes.
"What are you thinking about? So entranced?"
"I was thinking, I just proposed to my girlfriend and wanted to enjoy a few more days of carefree bliss, but before two days had even passed, you people came to bother me. Sigh, you really have no sense of propriety!"
"You proposed too?" Susie paused for a moment, then smiled. "She said yes?"
“Of course she said yes, but why did you add ‘again’?” Gu Ran seemed to remember something. “Oh… Caesar also proposed to Nono, right!”
"How did you know?" Susie was surprised again. This matter had not been made public yet; it should only be known to the parties involved and her.
"Sigh, these have truly been turbulent times... But Caesar, have you thought this through? Aren't you afraid Nono will become the next Gulvig?"
"Gulweg?"
Susie didn't react at first, but after a while she realized that it was Caesar's mother.
It is said that Caesar's mother was considered to have a lowly 'surname' because of her inferior lineage. She did not receive the respect she deserved in the family, and because she became weak after giving birth to Caesar, she died when Caesar was still young.
Previously, during the 'Dragon Invasion' incident, Gu Ran had talked about 'bride training' with Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo, which was overheard by Caesar, who had a Kamaitachi.
Gu Ran said at the time that there were many rules in the big family, while Caesar said that his relationship with Nono was between them and had nothing to do with the family.
Then, Gu Ran whispered something to Caesar:
"How can you guarantee that Nono won't become the next Gulweger?"
That remark infuriated Caesar, and he almost got into a fight with Gu Ran.
Susie had, of course, heard about Caesar, and at this moment, she couldn't help but feel worried about Nono's future.
She was so happy for Nuonuo that she happily said she would be her bridesmaid, but she overlooked the many feuds and conflicts within wealthy families.
“It seems that Nono is right to still be considering it.” Susie knew that Nono had not yet accepted Caesar’s proposal and seemed to still have some things on her mind.
"Forget it, I can't be bothered with their business. It's like the weather is going to rain or a mother is going to remarry; there's nothing I can do about it." Gu Ran glanced at the sky; it was almost noon.
He then sat up straight, released the handbrake of the sightseeing bus, and prepared to drive to pick up Su Xiaoqiang and Li Enshu for lunch.
Since everyone is a guest, Gu Ran certainly wouldn't kick Su Xi and Li Enshu out directly; he would treat them to a meal.
Using his farsightedness, he found Su Xiaoqiang in the free-range chicken coop.
The resort has about a hundred free-range chickens, raised entirely by automated machines. Water and feed are provided by specialized machines, eliminating the need for human labor.
Chicken droppings can be used as fertilizer, and the chickens raised can be sold to tourists for picnics and cooking, killing two birds with one stone.
However, when Gu Ran drove to the chicken coop, he found seven or eight chickens lying on the ground by a water trough, all of them dead with their throats slit.
"What's going on? What are you two doing?" Gu Ran asked, looking at the dead chickens scattered on the ground.
Su Xiaoqiang turned around at this moment and saw that she was holding a multi-purpose kitchen knife in her hand, the blade of which was very sharp. In her other hand, she was holding a chicken whose throat had just been cut and was being bled out!
Gu Ran was dumbfounded.
Lee Eun-sook explained, “My brother and sister-in-law asked me to teach them how to kill chickens, so I taught them. After teaching them, they had to practice a few more times, so… I killed a few more chickens.”
Kassel College has a wilderness survival course, and students also take a weighted cross-country race every academic year, so they all have some wilderness survival skills, such as how to kill chickens and slaughter pigs.
However, you don't need to be so particular when cooking in the wild. You can just remove the head, tail, and internal organs and roast it. But you need to be more particular when cooking at home. You have to slowly bleed the meat and clean the offal.
Gu Ran looked at Su Xiaoqiang, whose hands were covered in blood and whose shoes were also stained with blood. If you looked at her at night, you would think she was a beautiful female ghost.
Chapter 275 New War
"But you didn't need to kill so many chickens, did you?" Gu Ran shook his head and smiled wryly at Li Enshu and Su Xiaoqiang. "How are we supposed to eat them?"
The two girls stuck out their tongues, looking like they were only responsible for causing trouble and not for cleaning up.
Fortunately, there were helicopter crew members over there, all burly men, who could finish their meals in one or two meals.
Gu Ran, having some free time, made kiln-roasted chicken for everyone; it was quick and easy.
As for Su Xiaoqiang, she was told to go back and take a shower and change her clothes.
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